Base of numbers of swindlers and spammers in Russia

2020: The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications develops base of numbers of swindlers and spammers in Russia

On August 21, 2020 it became known of creation in Russia of uniform base of phone numbers of swindlers and spammers. The deputy head of department Oleg Ivanov told about the new project of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications.

Creation of certain applications and the single database where information arrives from citizens on a certain algorithm with check, from operators, from bank structures, from law enforcement authorities, all this together concentrates in the single database and further by mobile applications extends freely among users. — he reported in an interview to the Digital Journalism project.

According to him, the user will be able to install the application by means of which undesirable calls will be automatically blocked.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications creates base of numbers of swindlers and spammers in the Russian Federation

At the same time Ivanov allowed other scenario of development of the project at which the base of phone numbers of swindlers and spammers will be given to operators, and those will not pass traffic from these numbers any more.

For creation of uniform base of numbers of spammers and swindlers the working group which participants by August 21, 2020 consider different options of fight against telephone speculators was created. According to him, the Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications Maksut Shadayev appointed him responsible for fight against voice spam.

In Russia the Law on advertizing which prohibits distribution of advertizing on networks of telecommunication (the SMS, calls and e-mail mailing) without prior consent the subscriber works. In case of confirmation of the fact of violation of the company violator the administrative penalty from 100 to 500 thousand rubles threatens. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is engaged in identification of such violations.

FULL FACE note that sometimes citizens agree to the direction of the ad info and specify the contact information when filling different documents and agreements, further forgetting about them.^[1]

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